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Price charts no longer turn a penny's move into a cliff. Touch or hover any chart to see that day's price. And set logos now sit next to the set name on each card, on set groups in your collection, and on the Apple TV.
I went through everything our price provider offers and put more of it to work: sharper card pictures, 90 day and 6 month changes, PSA population counts, graded price ranges, and set details for every game.
Any TCG Marquee display can now show your collection with no prices at all, binder pages and set progress included. Plus Japanese cards priced in dollars, removing cards in bulk, and pictures that load much faster on TVs.
TCG Marquee can now identify cards and graded slabs from your phone's camera, so you can scan a whole stack and add it in one go. Plus share images sized for Instagram's new layout, and more reliable email.
The collection now shows card pictures and opens each card with its price chart, the wall has proper controls and swipes on phones, new accounts see a sample wall, feedback is one tap away, and the site follows your phone's dark setting.
TCG Marquee now installs to your phone's home screen, has a bottom tab bar on phones, uses its real fonts everywhere, and can turn any page of your wall into an image to share.
A replaced photo kept coming back, and a search box kept offering to fill in a password. Both had simple causes, and both are fixed.
Group your collection by binder, set, or game, fold groups away, sort by real card number, and use a layout built for phones.
Select cards with checkboxes, or a whole binder at once, and put them on the wall, take them off, or mark them for sale in a single step.
The collection page got tabs, a search box, filters, sortable columns, and paging, so a collection of a thousand cards is as easy to use as one of ten.
For screenshots and demos, TCG Marquee has a demo reel: sixteen invented cards from invented sets, with made-up prices and art drawn by the server.
A review of what real customers would hit first: billing gaps, Terms at signup, CSV import and export, price alert emails, and device limits.
The collection chart once said up while the value said down. It now tracks price movement only, over the same week as the number beside it.
Card shops can now show their own logo and a QR code to their website or social media, every fifteen pages. The ticker also stopped stuttering.
Show mode turns TCG Marquee into a sign for your table at a card show: cards you're selling, your asking price next to the market price, and totals.
Not everyone wants hardware. The Screen plan shows the wall at full resolution on any TV, monitor, or tablet with a web browser, on up to five screens.
Card search got a help guide with real examples, and a fix: searches now return up to 100 cards at once, since each search costs one credit either way.
The web app grew from one page into tabs: the wall, your collection, your account and plan, and a help page that explains how everything works.
Card shows sell more than Pokémon. TCG Marquee added Magic, Lorcana, One Piece, Gundam, and Riftbound, plus a full screen mode for demos on a monitor.
Graded slabs are a big part of what collectors care about. Adding PSA, CGC, BGS, TAG, SGC, and ACE prices led to splitting the product into two plans.
The parts were days away, so the web app got an animated dot matrix preview that shows exactly what the LED board will display, in the browser.
The first working version: a small server that stores your cards, a web page to add and edit them, and a connection to Scrydex for prices.
